Open Access an der Medizinischen Universität Graz – Therapieentscheidungen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Forschung und klinischem Alltag

Abstract

Open access at a medical university very often just happens by chance. However, sustained success can be achieved by targeted measures and institutional support. Many authors – caught between teaching, research and clinical tasks – are hardly able to fully know and take advantage of the various options of open access and the requirements stipulated by research funders. Authors hence need to rely on the framework provided by their institutions. Therefore, this framework must cover professionally and efficiently the possibilities offered by open access and become part of authors’ daily routine. If this is accomplished to a sufficient extent, such as with transformative agreements, Plan S and publication funds, the number of open access publications goes up without knowing which measure has been crucial and open access publishing just seems to happen.

Keywords

• Medical University of Graz
• open access
• transformative agreements
• publication fund
• Plan S
• repository
• case report